This book presents a groundbreaking synthesis of operations research, management science and behavioural operations to explain how modern container terminals and maritime networks function under accelerating technological, environmental, and organisational pressures. Bridging classical foundations with next generation digital ecosystems, the book positions ports as complex sociotechnical systems shaped simultaneously by automation, cyber physical integration, human decision pathways, and innovation dynamics rooted in creative destruction. The book is deeply empirical, drawing on massive maritime datasets to feed into reproducible modelling pipelines, with all computational logic and code provided to ensure transparency, replicability, and scholarly robustness. Rich case studies anchor the analysis across diverse operational theatres with the chapters showing how visual analytics, digital twins, simulation, and decision-support systems reveal hidden bottlenecks, behavioural anomalies, and cascading disruptions that traditional OR/MS models overlook. This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners in Operations Research, Management Science, Service Operations, Maritime Informatics, Behavioural Decision Science, and Complex Systems Engineering. It offers not only a theoretical advance but a fully reproducible computational ecosystem for analysing the next generation of maritime risk and innovation.
